Fuji Raw DNG support, and improvements to alignment, Autostack, and StackCheck

Version 2026.10.17

(Apologies to those who got the double-send!)

Raw DNG for Fujifilm cameras
Fujifilm stacks were turned away from camera-raw mode, and so from the Raw DNG. They work now, with the brightness correction Fuji files need.

Autostack can group photos across subfolders
The Include subfolders tick is now a three-way Subfolders choice. With the new option, a bracket your camera split across two card folders comes out as one stack. Your old setting still does what it did.

Autostack checks for trouble before it starts
If some photos have no capture time saved in them, Autostack says so. It falls back to the file date then, which can put different shoots in one stack. And if you asked for a Raw DNG that a stack can't make, it lets you know.

Your Raw DNG opens with the profile you shot with
A Raw DNG now keeps your camera's own record of how it was set up. If Lightroom's raw default is Camera Settings, your stack opens in the film simulation or picture style you shot with instead of the camera's standard profile. Canon CR3 and Panasonic files don't carry that record, so they're unchanged.

Your stacks match your camera's brightness better
When Macro Studio matches a stack to the camera's own JPEG, it does a better job at matching its brightness.

StackCheck spots a few frames lit differently
A couple of brightened frames can leave halos around legs and antennae. StackCheck now detects these better.

The Mac update box no longer offers to install updates automatically, because that checkbox never actually did anything.

Alignment improvements were made to the stacking algorithm to produce even better results, especially for hand-held stacks.